The SDVoE Alliance announced today that Melbourne-based iMAGsystems has joined the alliance as an adopting member.

The Australian company is already shipping Lightning, an advanced encoder/decoder built on SDVoE technology.

Lightning delivers uncompressed, zero-latency digital video at up to 4K resolution using standard 10GbE infrastructure, allowing Ethernet networks to become the backbone of AV systems.

“The time is absolutely right for SDVoE technology and our Lightning product. We’re seeing interest from dozens of projects in many sectors — commercial, hospitality, corporate, education and healthcare. All recognise the compelling advantages of moving zero-latency, uncompressed full-definition multi-view video to the network,” said iMAGsystems chief executive Gerry Raffaut.

All AV distribution and processing applications that demand zero-latency, uncompromised video can benefit from SDVoE technology. This technology provides an end-to-end hardware and software platform for AV extension, switching, processing and control through advanced chipset technology, common control APIs and interoperability.

SDVoE network architectures are based on off-the-shelf Ethernet switches, offering substantial cost savings and greater system flexibility and scalability over traditional approaches, such as point-to-point extension and circuit-based AV matrix switching.

“The industry’s transition to uncompromised AV-over-IP is well underway worldwide, thanks to shipping SDVoE solutions like those from iMAGsystems. We welcome iMAGsystems to the alliance and look forward to working with them as we provide the high-performance AV-over-IP platform and products the pro AV market is ready for,” said SDVoE Alliance president Justin Kennington.